Roles

• Overview
• Guest
• Member
• Contributor
• Moderator
• Administrator
• Related

User permissions are based the single assigned user role. Yes, each user can only be assigned a single role - this simplifies security. User rights are cumulative, meaning that if you are in a higher-rights role then you inherit all of the rights of all lesser roles.

A guest is defined as an anonymous user, or a user who is not logged in.

• View pages.

• All of the above permissions.
• Add comments.
• Delete owned comments.

• All of the above permissions.
• Create pages.
• Edit pages.

• All of the above permissions.
• Delete Pages.
• Delete non-owned comments.
• View missing pages.
• View moderation queue.
• View namespaces.
• View page list.

• All of the above permissions.
• Change site configuration.
• Edit Emojis.
• Edit roles.
• Edit user accounts.
• Execute system utilities.